These PAVE Terms of Service (the “Terms of Service”)  forms an agreement between Discovery Loft Inc. (“Discovery Loft”), with its principal place of business located at 145 Front St E Suite 102, Toronto, ON M5A 1E3, and the customer entering into an Order Form (as defined below) with Discovery Loft  (the “Customer”). Each of Discovery Loft and Customer will individually be referred to as a “Party” and jointly as the “Parties”. 

In addition to the terms and conditions set out in an Order Form, these Terms of Service sets forth the terms and conditions that govern the provision and use of: (i) the PAVE SaaS Services for the capture and inspection of vehicles; and (ii) consulting, training and other professional services made available by Discovery Loft in respect of the PAVE SaaS Services.

BY ENTERING INTO AN ORDER FORM, CUSTOMER  AGREES TO BE BOUND BY AND COMPLY WITH THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 14(k).     

1.               Definitions

(a)             "Agreement“ means these Terms of Service together with the applicable Order Form that incorporates these Terms of Service by reference.

(b)             Customer Data means any data, information, content, records, and files that Customer (or any of its Permitted Users) loads, transmits to, or enters into the PAVE SaaS Services, including Personal Information.

(c)             Customer System” means any software, solution, platform, system, or interface of Customer set out in an Order Form that Customer makes available to its Permitted Users in order to enable such Permitted Users to submit Customer Data relating to the inspections of vehicles to the PAVE SaaS Services.

(d)             Discovery Loft Services” means the PAVE SaaS Services and the Professional Services, collectively.

(e)             Effective Date” means the date upon which Customer first enters into the Order Form.

(f)              Licensed Third Party Technology” means third party technology that is licensed under separate license terms and not under this Agreement.

(g)             Modifications means modifications, improvements, customizations, patches, bug fixes, updates, enhancements, aggregations, compilations, derivative works, translations and adaptations, and “Modify” has a corresponding meaning.

(h)             Order Form” means any order form that incorporates these Terms of Service by reference and is executed by both Parties.

(i)               PAVE SaaS Services” means services through which Discovery Loft hosts and makes available the PAVE solution for the automated capture and inspection of vehicles that are described in an Order Form and any component thereof, including the provision of the Condition Reports.  For clarity, the term “PAVE SaaS Services” does not include Professional Services.

(j)               Permitted Uses” means the permitted uses set out in an Order Form.

(k)             Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual.

(l)               Professional Services” means the consulting, training and other professional services set out in an Order Form.  The term “Professional Services” does not include PAVE SaaS Services.

(m)           “Website” means any website used by Discovery Loft to provide the PAVE SaaS Services, including the websites located at https://paveapi.com and https://capdoc.paveapi.com.

2.               PAVE SaaS Services

(a)             Provisioning of the PAVE SaaS Services.  Subject to Customer’s and its Permitted Users’ compliance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Discovery Loft will make the PAVE SaaS Services available to Customer solely for the Permitted Uses and on the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement during the Term.  Customer is responsible for: (i) identifying and authenticating all Permitted Users; (ii) ensuring only Permitted Users access and use the PAVE SaaS Service; (iii) Permitted Users’ compliance with this Agreement; and (iv) Permitted Users’ access and use of the Customer System in connection with the PAVE SaaS Services, including any integration required between the Customer System and the PAVE SaaS Services (except to the extent such integration has been performed by Discovery Loft pursuant to an Order Form).

(b)             Restrictions on Use. Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or as otherwise agreed to by Discovery Loft in writing, Customer will not itself, and will not permit others to:

(i)               sub-license, sell, rent, lend, lease or distribute the PAVE SaaS Services or any intellectual property rights therein, or otherwise make the PAVE SaaS Services available to others;

(ii)             use the PAVE SaaS Services to permit service bureau use or commercially exploit the PAVE SaaS Services;

(iii)            use or access the PAVE SaaS Services: (A) in violation of any applicable law or intellectual property right; (B) in a manner that threatens the security or functionality of the PAVE SaaS Services; or (C) for any purpose or in any manner not expressly permitted in this Agreement;

(iv)            use the PAVE SaaS Services to create, collect, transmit, store, use or process any Customer Data:

(A)            that contains any computer viruses, worms, malicious code, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data;

(B)             that Customer does not have the lawful right to create, collect, transmit, store, use or process; or

(C)             that violates any applicable laws, or infringes, violates or otherwise misappropriates the intellectual property or other rights of any third party (including any moral right, privacy right or right of publicity);

(v)             Modify the PAVE SaaS Services;

(vi)            reverse engineer, de-compile or disassemble the PAVE SaaS Services; 

(vii)          remove or obscure any copyright, trade-mark, trade name, or other proprietary notices or labels on the PAVE SaaS Services, including Discovery Loft Marks and other brand, copyright, trademark and patent or patent pending notices, but excluding Customer Marks used in connection with the White-Labelling Functionality;

(viii)         access or use the PAVE SaaS Services for the purpose of building a similar or competitive product or service; or

(ix)            perform any vulnerability, penetration or similar testing of the PAVE SaaS Services.

(c)             Suspension of Access; Scheduled Downtime; Modifications.  Discovery Loft may from time to time and in its discretion, without limiting any of its other rights or remedies at law or in equity, under this Agreement:

(i)               suspend Customer’s access to or use of the PAVE SaaS Services in whole or in part:

(A)            for scheduled maintenance for which Discovery Loft has provided reasonable advance notice to Customer;

(B)             due to a Force Majeure;

(C)             if Provider believes in good faith that Customer or any Permitted User has violated any provision of this Agreement;

(D)            to address any emergency security concerns; or

(E)             if required to do so by a regulatory body or as a result of a change in applicable law; and

(ii)             make any Modifications to the PAVE SaaS Services, provided that no such Modification will materially degrade the functionality or performance of the PAVE SaaS Service.

(d)             Subcontracting. Discovery Loft may engage third parties to provide the PAVE SaaS Services.

(e)             Condition Reports. As part of the PAVE SaaS Services, Discovery Loft will provide Customer with a report that sets out the results of the applicable vehicle inspection performed using the PAVE SaaS Services (each, a “Condition Report”). Each Condition Report will be comprised of: (i) Customer Data, which will be subject to Section 3(a) below; and (ii) data generated or derived from Customer Data in connection with the use of the PAVE SaaS Services (“Condition Report Data”). Discovery Loft hereby grants to Customer a royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive license to use each Condition Report (excluding Discovery Loft Marks included therein) solely for the purposes of the applicable instance of the vehicle inspection to which the Condition Report relates and on the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement. In addition to the foregoing, Discovery Loft also grants to Customer a revocable, royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable license to use and display Discovery Loft’s trade-mark, trade name, or other proprietary notices or labels included in each Condition Report (the “Discovery Loft Marks”) solely as part of the Condition Report and Customer’s use of the PAVE SaaS Services. Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or as otherwise agreed to by Discovery Loft in writing, Customer will not itself, and will not permit others to:

(i)               sub-license, sell, rent, lend, lease or distribute the Condition Reports or any intellectual property rights therein, or otherwise make the Condition Reports available to others; or

(ii)             Modify the Condition Reports.

Customer acknowledges and agrees that Discovery Loft is not responsible or liable for any use of the Condition Report or any Condition Report Data provided by Discovery Loft, whether such use is by Customer or any Permitted User, that is not for the purpose of the applicable instance of the vehicle inspection to which the Condition Report relates.

(f)              White-Labelling Functionality. As part of the PAVE SaaS Services, Customer will have the option to apply its trade-mark or trade name marks (the “Customer Marks”) to the Condition Reports and a certain Permitted User interface provided as part of the PAVE SaaS Services (the application of such marks the “White-Labelling Functionality”). Customer grants to Discovery Loft a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, and fully paid-up right during the Term to access and use any Customer Marks provided by Customer in connection with the White-Labelling Functionality.  

3.               Ownership; Reservation of Rights

(a)             Customer retains all ownership and intellectual property rights in and to Customer Data and the Customer System. Customer grants to Discovery Loft a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sublicensable, and fully paid-up right to:

(i)               access and use the Customer System to provide the Discovery Loft Services; and

(ii)             access, collect, use, process, store, disclose and transmit Customer Data to: (i) provide the Discovery Loft Services; (ii) improve and enhance the Discovery Loft Services and its other offerings; and (iii) produce data, information or other materials that are not identified as relating to a particular individual or company (such data, information and materials, the “Aggregated Data”). Discovery Loft may use, process, store, disclose and transmit the Aggregated Data for any purpose and without restriction or obligation to Customer (including any Permitted User) of any kind.  

(b)             Discovery Loft or its licensors retain all ownership and intellectual property rights in and to: (i) the Discovery Loft Services; (ii) anything developed or delivered by or on behalf of Discovery Loft under this Agreement, including the Condition Report Data but excluding any Customer Data; and (iii) any Modifications to the foregoing (i) and (ii).

(c)             All rights not expressly granted by Discovery Loft to Customer under this Agreement are reserved, including rights in and to Discovery Loft Marks.

4.               Privacy

Each Party will comply with all applicable laws, when using, handling, disclosing, transferring, sharing, or processing, in any way and for any purpose, any Personal Information, including each Party’s employee and customer Personal Information. The Parties will provide reasonable assistance to each other in order to allow the Parties to comply with their respective obligations under privacy laws. Discovery Loft’s use, storage, processing, disclosure, and deletion of Personal Information provided to Discovery Loft by Customer under this Agreement is governed by the privacy policy located at https://pave.ai/privacy-policy (the “Privacy Policy”), which may be updated by Discovery Loft from time to time.

5.               Permitted Users

(a)             Customer will ensure that all of Customer’s customers (each, an “End Customer”) to whom Customer provides services using the Discovery Loft Services (the “Customer Services”), as well as Customers’ employees, independent contractors, or other internal users (each, an “End User”, and together with End Customers, “Permitted Users”), are bound by enforceable agreements containing terms that are no less restrictive or protective of Discovery Loft’s and its licensors’ rights than those set forth in this Agreement.  Customer will use all efforts to enforce such agreements similar to those efforts Customer uses to enforce its own terms and agreements for the protection of its own proprietary interests, but in no event less than reasonable efforts. Customer will promptly notify Discovery Loft of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of the PAVE SaaS Services.

(b)             Upon Customer’s request, Discovery Loft will issue one or more accounts (each, a “Customer User Account”) to Customer for use by Permitted Users. Customer will ensure that Permitted Users only use the PAVE SaaS Services through the Customer User Account.  Customer will not allow any Permitted User to share the Customer User Account with any other person. Discovery Loft reserves the right to suspend, deactivate, or replace the Customer User Account if it determines that the Customer User Account may have been used for an unauthorized purpose.

6.               Support

Customer will generally have access to Discovery Loft’s tier 2 technical support services (“Support Services”): (a) via email at support@pveapi.com from 9:00 am EST each Monday to Sunday to 9:00 pm EST each Monday to Sunday, (excluding statutory and civic holidays observed in Toronto, Ontario); (b) via Discovery Loft’s Slack channel; and (c) via Discovery Loft’s knowledge base and documentation available online at https://capdoc.paveapi.com. In the event that Customer requires additional support services from Discovery Loft, such services will be specified and ordered separately in an Order Form. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Customer will provide all support to Permitted Users, and if any Permitted User contacts Discovery Loft for support, Discovery Loft will direct such Permitted User to Customer for support.

7.               Service Incident Response Times

Following written notification by Customer of any inability to access the PAVE SaaS Services (during the Inspection Hours), Discovery Loft will properly classify such Service Incident into one of the severity levels described below, and based on such severity level classification, will use commercially reasonable efforts to respond to Customer in accordance with the time frames set forth below.